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Porky Pig is a cartoon character in the Warner Bros. Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons. He was the first character created by the studio to draw audiences based on his star power, and the animators created many critically acclaimed shorts featuring the character. [2]
The tune first appeared in the Merrie Melodies cartoon short Sweet Sioux, released June 26, 1937. [2]Starting with the Looney Tunes cartoon short Rover's Rival released October 9, 1937, an adapted instrumental version of the song's main tune became the staple opening and closing credits theme for the Looney Tunes series, most memorably featuring Porky Pig stuttering "Th-th-th-that's all, folks!"
By 1937, the theme music for Looney Tunes was "The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down" by Cliff Friend and Dave Franklin, and the theme music for Merrie Melodies was an adaptation of "Merrily We Roll Along" by Charles Tobias, Murray Mencher and Eddie Cantor [10] (the original theme was "Get Happy" by Harold Arlen, played at a faster tempo).
Looney Tunes Cartoons is an American animated television series developed by Pete Browngardt and produced by Warner Bros. Animation, based on the characters from Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies. [1] The series made its worldwide debut at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival on June 10, 2019, [ 2 ] and premiered on HBO Max on May 27 ...
Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies were so named as a reference to Disney's Silly Symphonies and were initially developed to showcase tracks from Warner Bros.' extensive music library; the title of the first Looney Tunes short, Sinkin' in the Bathtub (1930), is a pun on Singin' in the Bathtub. [9]
VHS – The Looney Tunes Video Show, Volume 9; VHS – Looney Tunes Presents: Tweety: Home Tweet Home; DVD – Saturday Morning Cartoons: 1960s Volume 2, Disc 1 (part of The Bugs Bunny Show episode 23) Blu-ray, DVD – Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Volume 2 Disc 1 (restored) January 25, 1958 [1] 579 Hurdy-Gurdy Hare: MM: Robert McKimson: J ...
Breathe a sigh of relief, Looney Tunes fans: You won’t have to say “That’s all, folks” to your favorite Bugs Bunny cartoons anytime soon. The classic Warner Bros. animated shorts will not ...
Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies: A Complete Illustrated Guide to the Warner Bros. Cartoons, by Jerry Beck and Will Friedwald (1989), Henry Holt, ISBN 0-8050-0894-2; Chuck Amuck : The Life and Times of an Animated Cartoonist by Chuck Jones, published by Farrar Straus & Giroux, ISBN 0-374-12348-9; That's Not All, Folks! by